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Express & Star 1 Feb 11
A street-by-street guide to crime in England was launched today – giving details of every recorded offence from burglary to anti-social behaviour.
The website, which crashed this morning under the volume of visitors, allows householders to type in their postcodes and see the number and type of crimes that have happened in and around their area…
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Mark Cowan B'ham Mail 13 Jan 11
Rain is one of the best policemen in the country, so the old adage goes. Well it appears rain-shy crooks don’t much like the cold either, statistics just released have revealed.
According to new figures from West Midlands Police have revealed that crime in December fell to the lowest level for almost 30 years.
The last time police recorded a month with fewer crimes was back in February 1981…
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Express & Star 8 Jan 11
Robberies in the West Midlands have soared by more than a third, while overall crime also rose over the winter, it was revealed today.
Figures covering September to November 2010 reveal the average number of robberies has risen from 585 a month to 785 — a rise of 34.2 per cent compared with 2009…
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Paul Dale B'ham Post 18 Dec 10
A Birmingham Conservative councillor has launched a scathing attack on West Midlands Police’s “disturbing” detection rates for crime. As councillors from all political parties congratulated the police force at a full committee meeting on its efforts to tackle crime, Matt Bennett could stand it no longer.
He rose to point out that targets for detecting serious crimes are “woefully low” and police officers are failing by some way to meet their own modest ambitions…
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Mark Cowan B'ham Post 1 Dec 10
Motorists have been warned to be on their guard for opportunist car thieves after more than 50 vehicles were stolen while people were defrosting their cars.
The so called “frost-jackers” took the vehicles from under noses of their owners who had walked away from them while the engines were left running to warm up…
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Express & Star 1 Nov 10
Metal thieves have struck in the Black Country more than 900 times in just three months, as police revealed criminals were now targeting 4×4 cars for their catalytic convertors.
Figures released today show Sandwell was the worst hit of the four Black Country boroughs, recording 321 metal thefts with 211 in Walsall and 218 in Wolverhampton…
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Express & Star 9 Oct 10
Eighteen people have been murdered in the West Midlands in just five months this year – double the rate of last year.
But detectives said despite the increase, the murder rate was currently at its lowest level since 1977. The number of murders last year was less than half of the 58 recorded in 2002/3, which was a high in recent years.
Detective Chief Inspector Mark Payne, crime manager at Bloxwich CID, said…
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Express & Star 6 Oct 10
Burglaries in the West Midlands have rocketed by 40 per cent while overall crime rose by 10 per cent over the summer.
Break-ins have gone up from an average of just over 1,200 a month in the region to almost 1,700…
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BBC News 15 Sep 10
Three ambulance workers are attacked every week on average in the West Midlands, according to new figures. West Midlands Ambulance Service said 166 incidents were reported by staff in 2009/10.
A spokeswoman said it was “completely unacceptable” that staff should have to face violence and verbal abuse…
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Adam Thompson Chase Post 3 Sep 10
Cannock Chase has become a hotbed for wildlife crime, according to a leading animal expert. Wildlife crime figures trebled in the last year with birds from the forest such as falcons and goldfinches being half finched.
Crooks have used methods such as glue on branches and calling birds in traps.
The number of cases involving deer poaching and hare coursing has also increased…